A final note for the year

I feel like I've spent a good part of 2019 banging my head against a thicker than average brick wall. Much of this feeling is tied to the controversy over the ethnogenesis of the Yamnaya people, and my often futile attempts to explain that their origin cannot be sought in what is now Iran, or, indeed, anywhere outside of Eastern Europe. This post is my final attempt to lay out the facts in

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